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our thanks, particularly those who have investigated the 
imperfect or cryptogamous plants, as Micheli, the liver- 
worts and fungi ; Persoon, Link, and Esenbeck, the fungi ; 
Dillenius and Hedwig, the mosses ; Gsertner, the fruit of 
plants. Of living British authors I purposely abstain from 
any mention, or I would bestow the proper meed of praise 
upon R. Brown, R. A. Salisbury, Goodenough, Dillwyn, 
Turner, and many other successful investigators of nature. 
Having thus brought the history of botany to the pre- 
sent time, the following chronological epitome will exhibit 
a clear view of its progress since the invention of printing, 
and also a succinct list of the principal authors, and parti- 
cularly of those relative to English Botany, or the esta- 
blishment of the natural system, in the order of their 
publication. 
Edward IV. 
1468. Pliny first printed. 
1471. Crescentius. Opus ruralium Commodorum. First 
dated edition. 
1475. Buch der Natur printed. First wood-cuts of natural 
history . 
1477. iEmilius Macer. DeVirtutibus Herbarum. Printed. 
1478. Dioscorides translated and printed. 
1483. Theophrastus translated and printed. 
Edw. V. and Rich. III. 
1484. Herbarium, published at Mentz. 
Henry VII. 
1485. Printing introduced into England hy Caxton 
Cuba ? Ortus Sanitatis. 
Henry VIII. 
1516. Great Herbal. Latin names alphabetical. The first 
English herbal. 
1528. Lucius Apulejus. DeVirtutibus Herbarum. Printed 
with Galen’s works. 
1530. Brunsfels. Herbarium. Restores practical Botany in 
Europe. 
1534. Judge Fitzherbert. Husbandry. 
1535. Valerius Cordus. Dispensatorium. First pharma- 
copoeia. 
154L Gesner. Historia Plantarum. Proposes genera by 
t he fructification . 
